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Before the attacks started, he wasn't doing it because he wanted to avoid attention. After the snake attacks them and Iname and Persuader disappear, he's taking a moment to think things through and try to puzzle out what's going on.
Here near the end of Part 8, he's finished considering...
First thought - Iname matches have to be pretty boring for the audience. Just a blur and then it's over. And would she be that interested?
Second thought - Nah wait, she probably negotiated that she gets to do a concert as her victory prize.
Gladiator idol, hell yeah.
Sailor Moon is not really a series that ever sits down and explains "these are a character's powers" so you have to infer it by observation. My best understanding of Endymion's abilities are something like this.
His sword and armor aren't "real" in a sense; they're manifestations of his magic...
Ah, we finally figured out the last step in the Light's "swallow the spider to catch the fly" series of plans.
"So then we bring in Darkseid to stop the Reach. And after that?"
"We release Darkseid's father from the Source Wall to take care of his son."
"Brilliant!"
Just got to make sure...
So I was going back to look up Persuader's previous appearances. (Not many!)
This is pretty interesting. Did she end up triggering an Awakening on her own?
I might have missed it because searching for "Persuader" brings up an awful lot of posts that used "Persuade", and not all her...
Just to be clear, one of Hinon's two major concerns about this planet was "Because there are so many unknowns". She talked a lot more about the pilgrims to the Source Wall because that's something where she knows what is happening.
But the planet itself is unknown unknowns and she admitted it.
Hmmm, this implies its magical field might have something to do with the Source rather than the Dream. Not that it's an either-or. Humans seem pretty compatible with Source Magic the way Grayven has had no trouble awakening any human who has a remotely heroic (in the classic sense) spirit...
Rename Cargg to "Tattooine", tell people they can become "Moisture Farmers", and sell adapting to its magical field as "learning to use the Force" and they'll get all the colonists they need.
(I'm just kidding, but it's funny to think about.)
To be fair, it's the demand for a magical presence that makes this difficult. If it weren't for that, the Controllers could build a planet to specification. (Though finding one to specification would be less work.)
But you want a place that's both magical and uninhabited? That's more...
Imagine being the Reach Intelligence Analyst who has to try and figured out what the fuck happened.
"Yes sir, we don't know what happened to the heads. Our best guess is that they were taken for use with some sort of brain-reading technology, so we're assuming all the information those agents...
I've been trying to hold my tongue, I've been trying real hard, but what the fuck people?!
You're going on about a setting that hasn't appeared in this story for years! To hell with Worm, to hell with Worm canon, to hell with Wildbow, and to hell with every character in that stupid web serial...
So I have a theory about what's been going on. Misa's problem is that her career has been going terribly. No, not her fashion career. Her assassin career.
I'm not sure exactly what her god-name is, but I'm pretty sure it's something about being a "wind of death", a killer who strikes with...
One thing from the recent arc is that I hadn't realized the SI had such strong feelings about the validity of reincarnation.
I philosophically sympathize with the idea that there's not enough continuity to say that a reincarnated person is the same as the person who they were reincarnated from...
Okay, I had wondered about that too.
I actually remembered Amane's attitude to Grayven being about as close as any of his followers/family come to how some of Darkseid's more fanatical followers view Darkseid. And I think I recall correctly given that you're having her address him as "Master"...
I'm pretty used to Paul making snap judgements about characters and universes and their actions, so I guess this is all more or less on brand.
I do think in this case his limited knowledge of the Sailor Moon series might be making things worse than if he knew nothing at all. Even an idea like...
My assumption would be that for Sailor V, the local-OL being her "boyfriend" means she's hugged him a few times, they might have gone out to eat, and she's maybe kissed him on the cheek.
All of you are talking about her age in legal terms and such, but based on her behavior in the show she...
I'm a little disappointed that we're not going to spend more time with the Sailor Moon characters on screen and interacting with the SI, because I think they're fun characters. Usagi is just the kind of "empty headed but good hearted" person that would simultaneously annoy Paul but also he'd...
To be fair, not that many updates ago we looked in on the Orange Lantern Corps in the Renegade timeline, and they were doing far worse.
It looks like Paragon's contribution to screening good candidates has made a lot of difference. It's jut non-obvious most of the time because it's hard to...
USAGI: I know you're wondering why I didn't bring him back to life too. I brought him back to what he considers life. It's service. Service!
NOT-LUSHAN: I do feel different somehow, though.
USAGI: Oh i made it so you're not animated by dark energy anymore. Now you're animated by... uh...